The lab-leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has leapt from ultra-right conspiracy theory to respectable opinion almost as fast as the virus itself allegedly flew from bats to humans. In Unherd, Bret Weinstein argues that the virus turning out to be man-made would be welcome news. Hopping across naturally from bats would, Weinstein contends, be vastly scarier.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


